Leon Bates

Leon Bates (18 October 1984-) was a soldier in the US Marine Corps.

Biography
Leon Bates was born in Naugatuck, Connecticut on 18 October 1984. Bates enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 2002, and he was deployed to Iraq in 2003, fighting in the Iraq War. Bates took part in Operation Osage on 23 July 2007, providing sniper support for the Marines that were fighting the Iraqi insurgents at the mosque of Almaden.